Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

The U.S.'s largest banks are entering an uncertain phase. Falling interest rates, low trading volumes, and a threat to the global economy due to the U.S.-China trade war are driving headwinds that...

UK sales slower but Tesco (LON:TSCO) keeps its footing Tesco shares have been buffeted all over the shop by disappointing underlying sales in the places where they matter most: the UK and Ireland....

On Tuesday, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) hosted its annual shareholder meeting in California. Shareholders were able to ask CEO Elon Musk questions about the company's problems and hear what the proposed...

A muted European open evolved into some tepid gains for the region’s indices, while the Dow Jones is looking to regain its momentum later this afternoon. The FTSE inched into the green thanks to...

European markets initially took their cues from last night’s decline in US markets, opening modestly lower, with no sign that either the US or China is in the mood to back down from their...

The underperformance in Tesco (LON:TSCO) share price over the past 12 months doesn’t appear to reflect the significant progress made by Tesco management in turning the business around, in the...

Absence of fresh trade tension news and a rally in Ferguson are helping the FTSE trade slightly higher with the plumbing merchant attracting significant buying as an activist investor increased its...

As expectations of an interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve swell, stocks that pay dividends are becoming attractive again.Going by the pricing of futures contracts, the market expectation is for...

Another soft inflation reading out of the US helped the Dow Jones avoid the kind of losses seen during the European session. Though the normal figure came in as expected at 0.1%, the core CPI number...

After a disastrous 2018, the FTSE 100 housing stock rebounded quite sharply in early 2019, climbing from £34.53 to £40.02 by the start of March, the first time it had crossed that key...

The European losses steadily worsened as Wednesday went on, the indices having little to distract from them from Donald Trump’s latest trade bluster.Falling 50 points, the FTSE found itself back...

Stock markets have rallied to overbought levels, the FTSE 100 is now pulling back. The rally is nearing an end, in the US the S&P 500 is approaching the all-time high.You will notice that the US...

Last year was a good year for Tesco (LON:TSCO) with a 29% jump in pre-tax profits to £1.67bn, while revenues rose 11% to £63.9bn, though you wouldn’t have known it when looking at...

Mining and technology shares in focus whilst China-linked rallies continueThe latest surge by Shanghai and Shenzhen indices comes just a day after trade data showed imports fell 8.5% on the year in...